Improvement in hods



UNITED STATES.

PATENT OF IoIi DAVID NoLAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HODS..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,888, dated February 1, 1876; application filed July 19, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID NOLAN, of Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hods, of which the following is a specification The nature of the present invention consists in a hod formed by crimping the rear end of the metal for the convenience of manufacture, and for giving the hod strength at that part,

and in strengthening a hod thus made by suitable braces, and providing it with a bandle attachment, as hereinafter described and shown.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective representation of my improved hod; Fig. 2-, a rear end view thereof.

In making my improved hod I cut from good charcoal sheet-iron a piece in the proportion of thirty-two by twenty-four inches, using The edgesB B aremade double from the same sheet, as are also the corners D D. The handle attachment consists in braces F E, on each side of the hod, fastened by rivets n, and made to terminate in a shank, G, for fastening to an ordinary handle. A shoulder-pieceand brace, J K, is welded to the shank G, and extends into the end 0, and is fastened by a rivet, S. Y For some hods it is desirable to brace them in front of the shank G by an iron, I, welded to the shank and riveted to the body of the hod at m for machine use.

A hod thus made is water-tight, and is lighter than the ordinary wooden bud, and if it should meet with an accident it is bent but not broken. and there is no-difficulty in discharging mortar from it.

DAYID NOLAN.

Witnesses O. H. ADIX, G. L. OHAPIN. 

